Ball Don't Lie -- reviewed by Arinze Mgbenema

          Travis Richard nicknamed "Sticky" is an extremely skilled basketball player who has a great future in the profession, but until the age of 6 years old Sticky had lived with a troubled and drug addicted mother and no father. He and his mother were poor and had no money. His mother was a prostitute and had an abusive boyfriend for some time so Sticky experienced some shocking things most children under 6 do not experience. His mother ended up committing suicide and Sticky was forced to move to several foster homes and began to build up an awkward social attitude towards people. As Sticky gets older he gets interested in basketball and works to perfect his skill in it every day. His goal is to play for UCLA and go to the NBA to play for the Lakers. Sticky has also gone into life of crime. When he was robbing a store he met a female cashier named Ahn -thu and she becomes his girlfriend.

        Throughout the book Sticky goes through many stressful events basketball, his girlfriend, and struggled to keep away from trouble it's all hard for him. Sticky decided that the only things that were important in his life at the moment is basketball and his girlfriend's birthday. Sticky tries to buy his girlfriend a necklace for her birthday but learns that he does not have the money, so he decides to rob a man for his money at night but surprisingly the man had a gun and shoots Sticky in the hand, Sticky is found and taken to a hospital in the hospital sticky thinks about life while his girlfriend sits by him. While his hand heals he thinks about the dumb decision that he made that could've cost him basketball and/or life.

I enjoyed this book very much. It was an interesting and a very satisfying read. As I went deeper and deeper into the the book I truly didn't want to stop mostly because it was a book that at some points I can relate to. This is a true book for basketball players and people just trying to find a good book to read.